Lambda Odijoo News
- 1. V ancouver, BC, February 19, 2009 – For trainers and learners seeking a web based training and delivery application that has no risk to address their training requirements, Lambda Solutions today introduced the commercial beta release of a knowledge marketplace, Odijoo. Created by eLearning industry experts with years of experience focused on trainers and learners of small to medium businesses (SMBs), making essential training practical, just like how the search (Google), video (You- Tube), blog (Wordpress), and online service (Amazon, eBay) are today a business tool and resource. For the trainers and domain experts, Odijoo provides free tools to create media rich and engaging online courses while providing them the ability and means to deliver, manage, and even sell their training courses to their targeted audience. For learners, Odijoo is the place to go when searching for courses. Community feedback and rating gives peace of mind when making informed decisions. “Odijoo represents a tremendous step forward in busi- ness-grade training and learning and lives up to its name with incredible flexibility and functionality, capturing all essential tools from fragmented and disparate solutions in today’s online training industry”, said Shevy Levy, President and Co-Founder, Lambda Solutions Inc. FREE COURSE CREATION TOOLS Odijoo provides the trainer and domain expert with free and flexible online tools for creating and editing media rich courses utilizing the eLearning best practices for effective online training. Odijoo allows the user to mix multimedia content (text, images, audio, and video) into design themes with built-in and easy to use Instructional Design and Story Boarding capabilities. All it takes is five Odijoo features premium free tools for trainers to create, sell or share, and deliver their answers for how, who, why, what, when, and where courses online for learners; perfect for business professionals of small to medium sized businesses. odijoo.com Training Business Professionals Odijoo is About Changing the Model of
- 2. simple steps to create engaging online courses. For the trainers and subject experts with existing course materials created with PowerPoint or Flash SWF, Odijoo provides the users the flexibility to import their content with ease allowing them to focus on their core training. With this powerful online course creation tool, users can start train- ing their learners online without having to worry about software and support resources. INTUITIVE COURSE MANAGEMENT AND DELIVERY Odijoo provides both the trainer and the learner with an advanced, practical and user friendly Web 3.0 user interface for delivering and learning online courses effec- tively. Online courses are presented to the learners with an intuitive learning environment to allow every user to engage in collaboration, sharing, and discussions in a single easy-to-use and friendly intuitive interface. Odijoo provides the trainers with the capability to add quizzes, invite learners and other trainers to their courses, and also view updated learner and course reports and audi- ence feedback. MARKETPLACE While it is designed to meet the extensive requirements of business professionals of small to medium sized businesses, Odijoo also caters to the business person’s entrepreneurial side. It features an e-commerce capability to allow any trainer or domain expert to sell their online courses to a wide audience of learners regardless of geographic loca- tion. Like Amazon (video, music, book), eBay (consumer), and PayPal (merchant payment gateway), Odijoo is about immediate access to courses for professional growth and development. Odijoo also uses PayPal, a trusted merchant gateway, to facilitate and process credit cards or PayPal payments, providing the highest encryption and security measures for all users of Odijoo. An unbiased community feedback feature is also inte- grated that has the necessary information that a course buyer looks for prior to purchasing courses which includes learner and trainer reviews, pricing, and recommenda- tions. Odijoo marketplace offered courses are automatically optimized for Internet search engines such as Google, MSN, or Yahoo to allow any internet user to easily find courses contributed by the business entrepreneur. AVAILABILITY Odijoo is currently available in English. User generated text content on Odijoo is available in any language sup- ported by the user’s computer. For more information please visit: www.odijoo.com. About Odijoo Odijoo is a Swahili term for teacher. An online market- place connecting the trainer and learner in ONE easy to use site. About Lambda Solutions Inc Lambda Solutions Inc. is the leading designer, developer and marketer of innovative custom eLearning solutions for the worldwide training market. Through the develop- ment of custom courses, learning management innova- tion, software and services that support multiple learners and trainers, Lambda provides platforms and solutions for seamless access to time-sensitive training including Internet and intranet-based applications. Lambda’s tech- nology and expertise also enables a broad array of users to enhance their products and services with practical solutions. Lambda’s created solutions for Tier 1 and For- tune 1000 companies are used by thousands of users around the world. Founded in 2002 and based in Vancou- ver, British Columbia, Lambda operates offices in North America and Asia Pacific. For more information, visit www.lambdasolutions.net or www.odijoo.com. Contacts Jason McIvor, Director of Sales and Marketing, www.odijoo.com Ph: +1.604.687.2444 ext 204 jason.mcivor@lambdasolutions.net odijoo.com